Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Undulating Wheat Ears and Undulating Wheat Ears with Circles 1840 Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century Rectangular sheet of paper with a textile design from a group, dated 1840, made in Mulhouse, Alsace, which was an important nineteenth-century center for textile production in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The design is made up of alternating vertical stripes of undulating wheat ears of light tan color over a dark reddish-brown base with off-setting leaves, and undulating wheat ears of white color and black outlines with circles over a light tan ground with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. The circles are arranged in groups of three and of pink, purple, and orange color, with outlines in dark red color and shades in black.. Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Undulating Wheat Ears and Undulating Wheat Ears with Circles. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. 1840. Gouache